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Customs in viticulture

In connection with viticulture, there is a wealth of old customs that are often only of regional significance. However, many old professions have died out or are no longer necessary due to new technologies. Unfortunately, many customs are also no longer practised. The current professions and functions in viticulture and the relevant institutions and training centres are listed under viticulture training. Further information on this topic can be found at

Brauchtum im Weinbau - Winzer, Weingartmann, Weingartenhüter

from Amper to Buttenstecken

from cellera to Fürtuch

from Gait to Imbs

  • Gait - see under Schoßkoa
  • Gärgitter - device for the escape of fermentation gas
  • Gebirgsaufschießen - start of the grape harvest
  • Grea (green) - thanksgiving festival
  • Herbstmuck - woman with the last grape during the grape harvest - slipping from a giant barrel
  • Herbstschmüerel - festival at the end of the grape harvest
  • Autumn wagon - wagon of the winegrowers at the grape harvest festival
  • Heuriger - wine tavern and last year's wine)
  • Imbs - snack in the vineyard

from Kalmuck-Janker to Krugrecht

from Latfass to Oinochoe

  • Latfass (Ladfass) - special barrel for the grape harvest
  • Leitgeben - right to serve wine
  • Lesehof - communal cellar for the grape harvest
  • Martini - Martini praise, wine baptism on 11 November
  • Métayage (French: Grangère, Vigneronnage) - half lease, partial lease
  • Cupbearer - servant responsible for the drinks
  • Nachlese (Wolfeln) - harvesting leftover grapes after the grape harvest
  • Neumagener Weinschiff - ancient find in Neumagen (Moselle)
  • Oinochoe - wine vessel

from pest vinegar to records

Brauchtum im Weinbau - Hiatahütt´n und alter Weinkeller in NÖ

from sabering to symposion

from tavern to ungeld

  • Tavern (tavern tavern, tavern) - wine bar
  • Thyrsos staff (Bacchus staff) - fertility symbol in ancient Greece
  • Törggelen (wine festival) - South Tyrolean wine festival
  • libation - ritual during seafaring
  • Drinking king - function at a festival in ancient Rome
  • Toasts - from over 70 countries from Egypt to Cyprus
  • Ungeld (Umgeld, Ohmgeld, Böspfennig) - excise duty and sales tax on wine

from vigneronnage to vineyard keeper

  • Vigneronnage (lease) - see under Métayage
  • Scarecrow - visual defence against pest birds in the vineyard
  • Weck, Worscht un Woi - Rhine-Franconian for bread rolls, sausage and wine
  • Weinbeergeiß (Weinbeergoaß) - to carry at harvest thanksgiving
  • Weinber and Weinberl - Austrian dialect expressions for grape and grape berry
  • Dalai Lama's vineyard - wine from the smallest vineyard in the world
  • Weinblume (Christmas rose wine)
  • Weinbruderschaft - association for the cultivation of wine culture
  • Vineyard guardian - old function for supervision in the vineyard before the harvest

from wine glass collection to drinking

Weinverkostung - Gemälde

Further information

See also under speciality wines with a list of around 200 types of wine associated with old customs, as well as rituals and customs under intoxication and drinking culture.

Winemakers: Professions of this world
Weingartman: Nuremberg house books, public domain, link
Weingartenhüter: Austrian National Library
Hiatahütt'n: Norbert F. J. Tischelmayer
Wine cellar: From alegria2014 on Pixabay

Painting: Johann Peter Hasenclever
- The Wine Tasting 1843, Sotheby's, Public domain, Link

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